Took 4 years, half a dozen ER trips with debilitating abdominal pain where I was dismissed with a lecture on PMS, denied referrals to OB-GYNs by my PCP, & told I was just “being a teenager,” before I got an exploratory lap to confirm endometriosis & excise lesions.
In this study physicians who are women received 24% more staff messages and 26% more patient messages leading to more unpaid work. How much more data do we need before we start addressing structural sexism in medicine?
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court just overturned Roe v. Wade, ending our constitutional right to abortion. We know you may be feeling a lot of things right now — hurt, anger, confusion. Whatever you feel is OK. We’re here with you — and we’ll never stop fighting for you.
Explain to me like I’m 5 how this helps fight homelessness?
Providing access to safe affordable housing fights homelessness not making it so simply sleeping can send one to prison
@simplyserotonin Going to second what others are saying: Invest in a good, comfortable desk chair! You won’t think it matters until you find yourself there for more than a few hours and suddenly complaining of lumbar pain.